Posts tagged healing justice
So now what, beloveds?
The ground is changing in Minnesota. Ice is melting and it isn’t gone, but it is not the same as it was a few months ago. And yes, I am talking about the frozen water that touches the soil but I am also talking about the mercenaries hired by the Trump administration. They are not gone, and if anything, as of this writing, they have ramped up their targeting of the suburbs and smaller towns. Some reports tell us that there are still 2000 agents in Minnesota and others say 500. We know they are still here, loves, but for some of us, the violent theater of Operation Metro Surge is also shifting.
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collective care , collective change , economic justice , liberation , Minnesota Susan Raffo February 24, 2026 Minnesota , ICE , healing , conflict , liberation , healing justice , Minneapolis , Operation Metro Surge , Trump , community , care , protection , security
An offering: eight hours of it
aging , ancestors , body practices , bodywork , bodyworker , collective care , eldering , healing justice , land and self , liberation Susan Raffo July 30, 2025 walking , healing justice , practitioner , land , land justice , social justice , bodywork , generational trauma
Giving the bones back
ancestors , collective care , healing justice , bodywork , bodyworker , body practices Susan Raffo February 25, 2024 bones , bodywork , healing justice , healing , craniosacral , ortho-biotomy , andrew taylor still , NAGPRA , Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , skeleton , colonization , stealing , MOVE bombing
On impact: memento mori
Grief and gravity
The lineages healers have to contend with.... working with ancestors of purpose
At least two layers of support: an anatomy of collective care
collective care Susan Raffo May 13, 2021 healing justice , two layers , support , collective care , mutual aid , pod mapping , Susan Raffo , Ray Castellino , protect , REP
listening: three brains (or more) instead of one
body practices , collective change , healing justice , liberation Susan Raffo February 27, 2021 healing justice , Suzanne River , Global Somatics , Susan Raffo , gut brain , brain , heart brain , there brains , cellular membrane , liberation , social justice
Embodying impact
Fortifying in COVID times
time to redistribute those stimulus checks, baby
healing justice , collective change , liberation , economic justice Susan Raffo March 27, 2020 healing justice , economic justice , stimulus check , money , community , collective care , Susan Raffo , mutual aid
coronavirus, climate change and community care
Building collective liberation: wondering about a protocol for healers
Aligning the relational field: a love story about retelling the creation of craniosacral therapy (and a lot of other touch-based bodywork as well)
Susan Raffo January 25, 2020 craniosacral therapy , healing justice , genocide , history , creation story , origins , Susan Raffo , Cherokee , Shawnee , Andrew Taylor Still , Osteopathy , William Sutherland , Hugh Milne , Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
why learning anatomy matters
What happens to the body when it hates and why it is so pleasurable
On rest and being part of a pack: looking to coyote
eldering and attachment and fear and control, no wonder we hardly talk to each other
ancestors , collective change , healing justice , liberation , aging , eldering Susan Raffo November 23, 2019 healing justice , trauma , aging , elder , healing , Susan Raffo , boomer , culture
how our bodies read the air
ancestors , body practices , healing justice , land and self , breathing Susan Raffo November 7, 2019 healing , healing justice , Susan Raffo , breath , breathing , oxygen , air , trauma
queerly classed and healing justice
ancestors , healing justice , sexual violence , class Susan Raffo October 26, 2019 healing justice , Susan Raffo , class , queerness , Queerly Classed , trauma , history , original wounds